FabSwingers.com forum: Prom!

By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

Such an American thing but my school did do one, but I didn’t go. They seem to be more of a “thing” these days.

Who here had one? If not, what did you do when you left school?

Mr AC’s whole year went to the local nightclub where they got an under 18 stamp on the way in so they couldn’t get served (but were allowed in).

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By *icecouple561Couple
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3 weeks ago

East Sussex

I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it

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By *oxesMan
3 weeks ago

Southend, Essex

I ever the after party more than the prom.

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By *naswingdressWoman
3 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

I had formals, but they were a very similar concept to proms.

I also had a muck up day - the last day of school, by tradition, the final year could do anything they wanted (pranks and mischief shy of criminal activity. One school near me, they broke into the principal's office, took all the furniture, and put it all on the roof in the same configuration. They also returned it all after everyone had had a good laugh)

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By *ineapplePixieCouple
3 weeks ago

S.Wales

I left school in '99 we just signed each others shirts and said meet you at the shop later to have a celebration drink 😅✨️

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I had formals, but they were a very similar concept to proms.

I love that idea!!

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school in '99 we just signed each others shirts and said meet you at the shop later to have a celebration drink 😅✨️"

A can of Stella sat on the pavement - perfect! 😜

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By *olyGlamorousWoman
3 weeks ago

Chester

I left in 1988, I left straight after my last exam and that was it 🤷🏼

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it "

Never to be seen again?

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By (user no longer on site)
3 weeks ago

Ours was cancelled because none of us liked each other enough to be in a room together. True fact.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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3 weeks ago

East Sussex

"I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it

Never to be seen again? "

More or less we all went off to different universities and colleges and I've only seen three of them since.

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By *ex HolesMan
3 weeks ago

Up North

When I left school a board duster wasn’t far behind

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"When I left school a board duster wasn’t far behind "

Well they had to throw things to make sure you didn’t turn back around….

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By *naswingdressWoman
3 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

Speaking of booze...

Rather than grades (AAA or whatever), my final score came as a percentage (the percentage you did better than - including the people who'd dropped out two years earlier. It's complicated).

Below... 30 I think, they didn't give out the actual number, they gave a star. It was colloquially known as the mystery mark, and it was apparently given because to actually tell you how dumb you were might hurt people's feelings.

The urban legend was that a mystery mark, the culmination of two years of school, could be exchanged for one beer in select pubs.

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it

Never to be seen again?

More or less we all went off to different universities and colleges and I've only seen three of them since. "

I left in 2008 and I’ve only seen one since!

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By (user no longer on site)
3 weeks ago

Prom … bloody hell another Americanism giving us more delight but cost

It’s daft

I went to work in California before I went to university and where I was working, prom was a huge thing …

Great for the jocks and those with confidence but bloody awful for the shy ones

I went to court and was prosecuted for driving a Limo into a college quadrangle

Small beer of course but 40 hrs litter picking in an orange overall bloody prom ..

Nice !

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By *icecouple561Couple
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3 weeks ago

East Sussex

"I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it

Never to be seen again?

More or less we all went off to different universities and colleges and I've only seen three of them since.

I left in 2008 and I’ve only seen one since!"

One is a very good friend since we first met at school, another was in my economics lectures at college and another got a job in the same place as me around 20 years ago.

I've just remembered a 4th who's a gp and treated one of our kids.

I'll be honest I wouldn't be interested in seeing any of them anyway 😝

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it

Never to be seen again?

More or less we all went off to different universities and colleges and I've only seen three of them since.

I left in 2008 and I’ve only seen one since!

One is a very good friend since we first met at school, another was in my economics lectures at college and another got a job in the same place as me around 20 years ago.

I've just remembered a 4th who's a gp and treated one of our kids.

I'll be honest I wouldn't be interested in seeing any of them anyway 😝"

Oh same! The one I catch up with yearly is enough of a school reminder for me too 🫣

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By *ou only live onceMan
3 weeks ago

London

I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs.

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By *ineapplePixieCouple
3 weeks ago

S.Wales

"I left school in '99 we just signed each others shirts and said meet you at the shop later to have a celebration drink 😅✨️

A can of Stella sat on the pavement - perfect! 😜"

A bottle of white lighting...cheaper stuff ha! ✨️

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By *avexxMan
3 weeks ago

cheshire

left school in 1976 never looked back

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By *olvesxcoupleCouple
3 weeks ago

Round the bend

We didn't do anything. We just signed each other's shirts and I remember leaving there thinking thank fuck I won't have to see most of them again.

😂

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By *cherryblossom-Woman
3 weeks ago

South glos

Proms were taking off when I left school, I still have my prom dress

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By *Rule_DFILMan
3 weeks ago

side you

"I left school in '99 we just signed each others shirts and said meet you at the shop later to have a celebration drink 😅✨️"
standing outside waiting for someone to pass who u think u can ask to go in get drink… il never forget asking 1 guy, oh he took our money went in the shop come out with 2 cherryade panda pop bottles… what a night was 🤯

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By *urls and DressesWoman
3 weeks ago

Somewhere near here

I think we were the second year to have a prom, although I don’t think it was called that back then. I didn’t attend, didn’t see the point of getting dressed up and spending the evening with a load of people who bullied me.

I instead spent the evening with my group of friends from another school and had a great night

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By *illydallydoodaahMan
3 weeks ago

Bristol

We had a leavers do. This was 96. Wasn't a "prom" as they were not a thing then. But we got to dress up in suits and dresses. We drank (although not supposed to) with our teachers who I'm pretty sure were just glad to see the back of us. As with any 90s party there was a lot of 'pulling' fingering on the dance floor, muddy knees and lots of great memories.

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By *hams123Man
3 weeks ago

London

Left school in early 00's. We had a prom. We did the whole t shirt signing thing too.

Our prom was a boat party. Although the boat never sailed.

In college I had a prom in a town hall.

In university I had a boat party. The boat sailed around the Thames.

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs."

Please tell me you had a May Pole too…

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school in '99 we just signed each others shirts and said meet you at the shop later to have a celebration drink 😅✨️

A can of Stella sat on the pavement - perfect! 😜

A bottle of white lighting...cheaper stuff ha! ✨️"

Incase you ever try white lightening again, I learnt the hard way that it is infact not a good mixer for vodka! Oh to be a teenager 🤣🤣

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"Proms were taking off when I left school, I still have my prom dress

Oh fun! Did you go?

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"We had a leavers do. This was 96. Wasn't a "prom" as they were not a thing then. But we got to dress up in suits and dresses. We drank (although not supposed to) with our teachers who I'm pretty sure were just glad to see the back of us. As with any 90s party there was a lot of 'pulling' fingering on the dance floor, muddy knees and lots of great memories. "

Fingering on the dance floor, those were the days 🫣

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"Left school in early 00's. We had a prom. We did the whole t shirt signing thing too.

Our prom was a boat party. Although the boat never sailed.

In college I had a prom in a town hall.

In university I had a boat party. The boat sailed around the Thames."

Oh fancy!!

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By *ou only live onceMan
3 weeks ago

London

"I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs.

Please tell me you had a May Pole too…"

Sadly not.

Though I think I've just had a flashback of May Pole dancing in primary school - is that a thing? Why were they so cruel in the 80s?!

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs.

Please tell me you had a May Pole too…

Sadly not.

Though I think I've just had a flashback of May Pole dancing in primary school - is that a thing? Why were they so cruel in the 80s?!"

Haha to be fair, I have definitely danced around a May pole at a festival since. Though I guess plaiting ribbons around a pole with flowers in your hair and a drink in your hand because you chose to is different? (Please tell me it’s different)

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By *rincess_Peach1992Woman
3 weeks ago

Newport

Left school in 2008, we had a prom 😊

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By *ou only live onceMan
3 weeks ago

London

"I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs.

Please tell me you had a May Pole too…

Sadly not.

Though I think I've just had a flashback of May Pole dancing in primary school - is that a thing? Why were they so cruel in the 80s?!

I mean...I can claim to be acting under duress...

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By *morousCouple8 OP Couple
3 weeks ago

Cumbria

"I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs.

Please tell me you had a May Pole too…

Sadly not.

Though I think I've just had a flashback of May Pole dancing in primary school - is that a thing? Why were they so cruel in the 80s?!

I mean...I can claim to be acting under duress..."

“Oh no, I can’t be May Queen” 😏

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
3 weeks ago

Glasgow / London / Manchester

Or just acting under that dress?

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By *ou only live onceMan
3 weeks ago

London

"I left school before Proms...

We had a 'May Ball' instead. Yep, what knobs.

Please tell me you had a May Pole too…

Sadly not.

Though I think I've just had a flashback of May Pole dancing in primary school - is that a thing? Why were they so cruel in the 80s?!

I mean...I can claim to be acting under duress...

“Oh no, I can’t be May Queen” 😏"

You've got to give the people what they want...

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By *aFemmeCoquetteWoman
3 weeks ago

Somewhere in the middle not the.....

Left in 95, no such thing as a prom, think the oldest looking of us (normally me) hit the off license for cheap booze and we all sat getting d*unk 😂

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By *igerFiestaMan
3 weeks ago

Huddersfield

Finished school in '01. No formal events and or shirt signings. Just did the exams and left. Friends had exams on different days, so there were no formal goodbyes. I still remember walking out of the school gates for the last time. One of the best feelings. Although I did return later very briefly to collect my results and many years later I was planning to attend a class reunion, but the school closed.

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By *ineapplePixieCouple
3 weeks ago

S.Wales

"I left school in '99 we just signed each others shirts and said meet you at the shop later to have a celebration drink 😅✨️

A can of Stella sat on the pavement - perfect! 😜

A bottle of white lighting...cheaper stuff ha! ✨️

Incase you ever try white lightening again, I learnt the hard way that it is infact not a good mixer for vodka! Oh to be a teenager 🤣🤣"

O god no! Won't be trying that stuff again 🤢✨️

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By *eltCuteMightDeleteWoman
3 weeks ago

Reading

I had a prom. Still have my prom dress too, I think.

It was in a local hotel and I remember my friends bullied me into attending. I didn’t recognise a lot of my year group, took a few pictures with friends and left early 😬

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By *veragecouple2000Couple
3 weeks ago

South Wales

It was 1993 so I just left and never went back…..I think there was some sort of leavers disco but I had zero interest in ever seeing anyone I went to school with again after I’d left! Xx 😄

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By *oyoteUglyWoman
3 weeks ago

Somewhere dark and gloomy

My school had prom, I didn't go as I had no friends and no guy wanted me.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
3 weeks ago

Reading

"I left school in 1974. We walked out of the door after our last A level and that was it "

Same. I also didn't go to my university graduation.

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By *eliWoman
3 weeks ago

No. We had a school leavers disco, almost two decades ago now. Fuck I'm old.

There were talks of pairing up with an all boys' near us for a prom but it wasn't approved. 🥲

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By *r_Mrs.DSCouple
3 weeks ago

Voldsøy

We just signed eachothers shirts, wrote little goodbye/good luck messages in our notebooks and off we went.

I'm sure some groups went to the park/beach to partake in some white cider or lambrini

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
3 weeks ago

SW1A1AA

We used to have a disco every year but in our last year we just left when our final exam was over so people left at different times.

Me leaving school was a non event

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